The Mazeppist

A Transgressive Transcendentalist manifesto.

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Part Irish, part Dervish, ecstatic humanist, critical Modernist, transgressive Transcendentalist.

Sunday, July 31, 2022

The Scholar

                                                                             

                                                                 Wilhelmine Schwanck.
 

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Further Reflections


D. H. Lawrence published The Escaped Cock in 1929, William Faulkner published “The Bear” in 1942, Hemingway The Old Man in 1952. All were writing post-theological religious literature in my view. 

I think Tolstoy’s “The Bear Hunt” (1872) looms in the background of both the Faulkner and the Hemingway story, the Gospel of Mark in the background of Part I of Lawrence’s story.

Of The Old Man, Hemingway said: “all the things that are in it do not show, but only are with you after you have read it” and “It’s as though I had gotten finally what I had been working for all my life.”

Of the three, I think The Old Man is the most perfectly realized. It seems flawless to me.
 


Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Post-Theological Religious Literature


 


Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Shakespeare & Co.

 

                                                                           Paris, France.
 

Monday, July 25, 2022

The Book Trader


                                                         Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Saturday, July 23, 2022

Moe's Books


                                                                 Berkeley, California.

Friday, July 22, 2022

Homer Kitabevi


                                                                 Istanbul, Turkey.

Thursday, July 21, 2022

The Elliot Bay Book Company


                                                             Seattle, Washington.

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Midtown Scholar Bookstore


                                                         Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Commonwealth Books


                                                         Boston, Massachusetts.

Monday, July 18, 2022

The Hermitage Bookshop


                                                         Denver, Colorado.

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Don Ernesto


 


Saturday, July 16, 2022

Black Swan Books


                                                                 Lexington, Kentucky.

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Berdyaev Speaks


 

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Show Me the World

                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                        Uzbekistan

 


                                                                            Sudan

 


                                                                             Pakistan

 


                                                                         Yemen


Monday, July 11, 2022

Elegance


 

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Get Lost!


 

Saturday, July 09, 2022

Eid al-Adha

                                

                    Celebrates what should have been the end of human sacrifice.
 

Friday, July 08, 2022

Moroccan Mint


 

Wednesday, July 06, 2022

Udait Kamberovic


                                                                 Serbian artist.

Tuesday, July 05, 2022

The Ferryman by Corot


 

Sunday, July 03, 2022

Corot


                                                                 Complete Works.

Saturday, July 02, 2022

The Dial


 

Friday, July 01, 2022

Old Haunts


                                         Frick Fine Arts Library, University of Pittsburgh.

                    

       2nd Floor Reading Room, Main Branch, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.